LETTER: ‘This is a kick in the guts for me’

The Cow Moose Sign Project promotes the protection, respect and a province-wide moratorium on antlerless moose.

These females and spring, fall calves that are so important for the short- and long-term, declining moose populations throughout Region 5 and the province, are on the cutting block again, for the fall hunting season.

Anyone who has followed this non-profit awareness campaign knows this is not against hunters or their and my passion for the outdoors.

Respectfully following guidelines for the laws of the land is critical for all species existence.

Hunting, fishing, backpacking in the beautiful B.C. mountains, we are all so lucky, and this should not be taken for granted.

After over five years of dedicated work, working together with so many, I am thankful for funding support from the ministry of forests, lands and natural resource operations, but I am not happy with their decision to proceed with an antlerless hunt when Minister Doug Donaldson’s message on page two of the hunting and trapping regulations synopsis states: “We want to develop long- and short-term ways to manage B.C.’s wildlife resources.”

I am sorry but killing antlerless moose by anyone in this province is not the right thing to do.

Please, someone, respond. I have thick skin. Right or wrong, explain to me and our supporters this management decision. Doug Donaldson, our minister, our MLA Donna Barnett, or our Cariboo-Prince George MP Todd Doherty: I know you’re busy. But after waiting for five years for someone in government to make a comment and put ink on paper, for the Cow Moose Sign Project, “It’s now time.”